Croton Chloral-hydrate. Butyl-chloral-hydrate. C4H3 Cl3 OH2O. Trituration. Solution in alcohol and glycerine.
Clinical
Anesthesia. Neuralgia.
Characteristics
*Croton chloral received its name from the supposition that it contained Crotonic acid (C4 H6 O2). According to Hale it is said to possess the singular property of producing anesthesia of the brain and nerves of the head without affecting the sensibility of the rest of the body. It has been given allopathically in substantial doses in cases of trifacial neuralgia. The patients who were helped by it had carious teeth and some of them anaemia. In two cases the pains were aggravated by it. In some it caused sleep, others were eased but did not sleep.
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica